TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Bombings in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk have killed at least 35 people in Iraq as the government investigated a deadly attack on a Sunni mosque.


A bomb also exploded in the northern city of Arbil on Saturday, a rare attack unsettling the relative stability the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region has enjoyed.


Local television footage showed firefighters dousing the charred remains of a car in Arbil. A Reuters journalist earlier saw a cloud of smoke, but the source was not clear.

In Baghdad, a bomber rammed a vehicle into an intelligence headquarters, killing at least eight people, police and medical sources said.

Near Tikrit, a suicide bomber driving a military Humvee packed with explosives attacked a gathering of soldiers and militias overnight, killing nine.

An advance by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) through northern Iraq has alarmed the Baghdad government and its Western allies and drawn US airstrikes in Iraq for the first time since the withdrawal of American troops in 2011.

By Tasnim News Agency

 

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